On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 04:48:09 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 5:55:26 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>> " wrote:
>> > Living in a very desirous neighborhood comes with aggravations. One of the
>> > biggest one is some jack leg realtor wanting to buy your house for what THEY
>> > think is a fair market price. First thing they would do is knock down my
>> > house and stick what we call a "tall, skinny duplex" on my small, standard
>> > for the time of the neighborhood lot.
>>
>> Same thing happens in my area. Used to paint an old house at
>> north end of the beach. When old "mom" died, her kids sold
>> it. Huge old charming house with about the largest
>> property in the area.
>>
>> I drove by it a year later and the old house was gone.
>> The nice yard was gone.
>> Replaced by 3, 3-story condo duplexes. 6 units in all.
>> All crammed in side by side.
>> Very sad to see that but I'm sure the buyer made a
>> fortune on it all.
>
>YUCK! :-(
>
>McMansions and McSlums! What a regressive 300 year vision you have! Much like the Dark Ages of Royalty and Serfdom! :-( Dystopian Vision! :-( China has a LOT of those thanks to MalWart for the past 30 years!!
>
>
>John Kuthe...

I guess your vision of single dwellings would leave many homeless
through no fault of their own??

On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 6:55:26 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> " wrote:
> > Living in a very desirous neighborhood comes with aggravations. One of the
> > biggest one is some jack leg realtor wanting to buy your house for what THEY
> > think is a fair market price. First thing they would do is knock down my
> > house and stick what we call a "tall, skinny duplex" on my small, standard
> > for the time of the neighborhood lot.
>
> Same thing happens in my area. Used to paint an old house at
> north end of the beach. When old "mom" died, her kids sold
> it. Huge old charming house with about the largest
> property in the area.
>
> I drove by it a year later and the old house was gone.
> The nice yard was gone.
> Replaced by 3, 3-story condo duplexes. 6 units in all.
> All crammed in side by side.
> Very sad to see that but I'm sure the buyer made a
> fortune on it all.

Not only that, but it served a housing need for people who don't
want to maintain a lawn.

Cindy Hamilton

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> Gary wrote:
> > I drove by it a year later and the old house was gone.
> > The nice yard was gone.
> > Replaced by 3, 3-story condo duplexes. 6 units in all.
> > All crammed in side by side.
> > Very sad to see that but I'm sure the buyer made a
> > fortune on it all.
>
> Not only that, but it served a housing need for people who don't
> want to maintain a lawn.

Cindy. Anyone that bought one of those units would have no
worries hiring a yard guy. No yard left at all worth speaking
of. Each unit cost over $1 million. This is prime real
estate only 1 block from the ocean.

Just the annual property tax is insane up that way.

On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 05:54:31 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 6:55:26 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
>> " wrote:
>> > Living in a very desirous neighborhood comes with aggravations. One of the
>> > biggest one is some jack leg realtor wanting to buy your house for what THEY
>> > think is a fair market price. First thing they would do is knock down my
>> > house and stick what we call a "tall, skinny duplex" on my small, standard
>> > for the time of the neighborhood lot.
>>
>> Same thing happens in my area. Used to paint an old house at
>> north end of the beach. When old "mom" died, her kids sold
>> it. Huge old charming house with about the largest
>> property in the area.
>>
>> I drove by it a year later and the old house was gone.
>> The nice yard was gone.
>> Replaced by 3, 3-story condo duplexes. 6 units in all.
>> All crammed in side by side.
>> Very sad to see that but I'm sure the buyer made a
>> fortune on it all.
>
>Not only that, but it served a housing need for people who don't
>want to maintain a lawn.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

OMG! What if they were using a gas guzzling lawn mower??

On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 5:55:26 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>
> " wrote:
>
> > Living in a very desirous neighborhood comes with aggravations. One of the
> > biggest one is some jack leg realtor wanting to buy your house for what THEY
> > think is a fair market price. First thing they would do is knock down my
> > house and stick what we call a "tall, skinny duplex" on my small, standard
> > for the time of the neighborhood lot.
>
> Same thing happens in my area. Used to paint an old house at
> north end of the beach. When old "mom" died, her kids sold
> it. Huge old charming house with about the largest
> property in the area.
>
> I drove by it a year later and the old house was gone.
> The nice yard was gone.
> Replaced by 3, 3-story condo duplexes. 6 units in all.
> All crammed in side by side.
> Very sad to see that but I'm sure the buyer made a
> fortune on it all.
>
Two or three years ago there was a 'tall, skinny' duplex built just around
the corner from me. After completion I turned on HGTV's "House Hunters"
program and I'm thinking, "dang, that looks like my neighborhood!" Well,
it was and one of the three houses that was featured on that program that
day was the tall, skinny duplex. Four bedrooms, four baths and admittedly
it was gorgeous inside and the asking price was $440,000. Mind you, that's
just one side of the duplex and the buyers were bitching because it didn't
have a garage. If you're willing to pay full price for the duplex, shut up
and spend a bit more and have a garage built.

Buyers paid full price for their side so most likely after the dust settled
the other side probably went for $440,000, too. That would make the entire duplex probably selling for $880,000; I'm not interested enough to look up
the tax records which are available to anyone and online.

John Kuthe wrote:
> 5min walk to UMSL one way, 5min walk to the Metrolink UMSL South station the other and a 5min drive to/from STL International Airport! 3068 Bellerive is the SWEET SPOT!:-)
>
> John Kuthe...

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